However in “We Real Cool”, the poem is structured as a closed type of poem because it is set up in a series of couplets that have a song type of pattern. This is demonstrated in, “Lurk late. We / Strike straight” (3-4). There is a set structure of four stanzas of couplets, which is a particular pattern, and adds to the way the rhyme scheme is displayed. I believe this poem has internal rhyme that allow it to have that song or rap type of portrayal, displayed in, “Jazz June. We / Die soon” (7-8). The structure of this story also allows us to make an inference on whom the speaker is because the story only uses “we” to describe their behaviors that are carried out in the poem. By structuring it with only the pronoun “we”, I believe that it is
